This is just the early stages of their plan to obstruct the President any way they can. Rather than admit that they are going to do this, they will say that the President should have worked with them rather than spending all that time winning. Because now that he's won, he has no basis for governing
It doesn't make a damn bit of sense, but when the fillibusters start, we'll see this as the rationale. If I were the President. I'd renominate the judges that didn't get out of committee and demand an immediate up or down vote in the full Senate. Let's draw our lines now and begin the fight.
Nope, he's going to keep on doing basically what he's been doing... being patient, disciplined, gracious. He will get the tools he needs to prosecute the war. Then he will get on with Iraq. Then he will be re-elected in a landslide in 2004.
Things look really good for the pubs if they don't try to go to fast. I know that's going to piss off all the libertarians, but too bad. He knows what he's doing. And the country will continue to move to the right.